Ezekiel:20:14-17
kjv@Ezekiel:20:14 @ But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.
kjv@Ezekiel:20:15 @ Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;
kjv@Ezekiel:20:16 @ Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
kjv@Ezekiel:20:17 @ Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.